The festival takes place over three days with an exciting programme of engaging speakers and topics. There is ample opportunity between talks to purchase speakers' books from our pop-up bookshop, and get them signed. Full details of 2019's programme to come shortly. For now, here is a taste of what our 2018 audiences enjoyed.
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FRIDAY 28th SEPTEMBER
2.00 Landscape Walk led by Ruth Worsley of Legacy to Landscape – free to join
5.00 Ambra Edwards: What makes a great Head Gardener?
6.30 Stephen Calloway: The short life and brilliant achievement of Aubrey Beardsley
SATURDAY 29th SEPTEMBER
10.00 Lucy Malouf in conversation with Caroline Montagu: Travels in the Middle East and my life as a food writer
11.30 William Ryan: How a chance encounter with a collection of extraordinary photographs led to writing a novel about Nazi Germany
2.00 Rachael Boast: reading from her collections, Pilgrim's Flower and Void Studies, and talking about the poems
3.30 Adam Hart-Davis: The life and work of William Heath Robinson
5.00 Anne Swithinbank: Scent in the garden
6.30 Esther Freud: My life as a writer and the difference between writing a play and a novel
SUNDAY 30th SEPTEMBER
10.00 Martin Barber (introduced by Alison Harvey, Barrister and former Legal Director of the Immigration Law Practitioners' Association): Humanitarian aid in the 21st century – why it's vital to support local responders
11.30 Richard Edmonds: 220 million years to just 170 years ago – the making of the Jurassic Coast
2.00 Renee Edwards: showing her film, One Note at a Time – a multi-award-winning feature documentary about the musicians who courageously returned to New Orleans after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina
4.30 A performance by Ricky Romain's Vadi: playing a number of different Indian ragas, each signifying different moods and emotions, while drawing on folk, funk, Hendrix and improvisation
2.00 Landscape Walk led by Ruth Worsley of Legacy to Landscape – free to join
5.00 Ambra Edwards: What makes a great Head Gardener?
6.30 Stephen Calloway: The short life and brilliant achievement of Aubrey Beardsley
SATURDAY 29th SEPTEMBER
10.00 Lucy Malouf in conversation with Caroline Montagu: Travels in the Middle East and my life as a food writer
11.30 William Ryan: How a chance encounter with a collection of extraordinary photographs led to writing a novel about Nazi Germany
2.00 Rachael Boast: reading from her collections, Pilgrim's Flower and Void Studies, and talking about the poems
3.30 Adam Hart-Davis: The life and work of William Heath Robinson
5.00 Anne Swithinbank: Scent in the garden
6.30 Esther Freud: My life as a writer and the difference between writing a play and a novel
SUNDAY 30th SEPTEMBER
10.00 Martin Barber (introduced by Alison Harvey, Barrister and former Legal Director of the Immigration Law Practitioners' Association): Humanitarian aid in the 21st century – why it's vital to support local responders
11.30 Richard Edmonds: 220 million years to just 170 years ago – the making of the Jurassic Coast
2.00 Renee Edwards: showing her film, One Note at a Time – a multi-award-winning feature documentary about the musicians who courageously returned to New Orleans after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina
4.30 A performance by Ricky Romain's Vadi: playing a number of different Indian ragas, each signifying different moods and emotions, while drawing on folk, funk, Hendrix and improvisation
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